Carey v. Bowie

This is an appeal upon the judgment-roll alone from a judgment decreeing that defendants, within a specified time, remove to a point not less than 4 feet from the property line a certain addition to their dwelling-house which encroached upon the land of plaintiff and awarding judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1,000 in the event that defendants failed to remove said addition within the time allowed.

Plaintiff and defendants were adjoining property owners in San Francisco, their lots being situated in a residential tract known as Ingleside Terraces. These lots were acquired subject…